A local Jew heard this from a Jew who yet knew R. Meir Premishlaner (R. Meir Premishlaner passed away in [5]610 [1850]).
R. Meir told the Jew to go to war and promised him that he would survive. The Jew lived very long and lived to be 108 years old.
The Jew related that in the last years of R. Meir Premishlaner’s life, they did not allow anyone to approach him. And he received only very special people and even this only through a hole in the door. The Jew remembered the thin hand he stuck out through the door.
Hasidim said that the reason he didn’t allow anyone into him was because if he were to look a Jew in the face he would know all his sins.
I.F.
Alexander Bistritzky
